Space-time topology and spontaneous symmetry breaking

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/14/11/017zbMath0538.55013OpenAlexW2045667048MaRDI QIDQ5896333

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Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/14/11/017

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesspontaneous symmetry breakingtopological chargesgauge sectorelectroweak, grand unified theoriesprincipal G bundle over a compact four-dimensional space-timereductions of the structure group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Sectioning fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55S40)

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